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With the current dance, he could face totally different SERPs. :)
Yes, Yahoo! uses Google search results. But as Yahoo! acquired Inktomy recently, this could -and probably will- change in the future.
Dan
He could, but I doubt it. The 17 people that I check with on a daily basis seem to see the same thing I see and between us we live in 15 countries and 5 continents.
BTW that is going to change as it is rumoured that Yahoo! will switch over to Inktomi index by year end.
[edited by: mil2k at 7:03 am (utc) on May 16, 2003]
I think you are right. I thought it had something to do with their directory based on what I've seen with my own site anyway.
I’m not convinced that they use just google results. I’m on page 1 for my KW’s in yahoo and page 2 on google and it has been that way for sometime now.
It's actually possible to move from page three to 1 as a result of these.
It's not just a page thing. It's the top of page1 and the bottom of page 2.
Strange. For the most part, Yahoo and Google results always seemed to mirror each other. Today, I did a search for one of my keywords and the Google results didn't start until #11. The top 10 were from somewhere else. Maybe Inktomi results?
Yahoo also appears to have filters for adjusting SERPs based on Yahoo directory entries.
To see an interesting and large difference between the two try searching for God. Many other very common keywords/phases show similar differences.
These differences are nothing to do with the update, they have been there for sometime.
Sorry Mattricks, but if you're searching Yahoo! from Pakistan or Jordan or Islamabad, your results may vary from someone searching from Ohio or Tunisia or Ireland. However, you're then at the mercy of contacting people that live in those areas to check the positions of the phrases you are searching for, or you can open up two browser windows and check the results that are relevant for you.
So to answer your question fully, yes, Yahoo uses Google search results, and yes, it is more complex than that.
That also makes sense since backlinks is why I fell from the top 3 spots on google.
Somebody influential in yahoo seems to fear god and does not dare to serve with strange results.
google does not seem to have this problem....
What scares me is that I have found over 30 very, very common terms where Yahoo results differ significantly. By scares I mean Yahoo is much better in almost all of cases (unbiased opinion, no searches were in my cats).
The God example is an extreme case of someone wanting to prove they can rank high using backlinks/anchor text only. True proof that site content doesn't always matter!
But the other sites aren't playing these tricks, it is caused by the algo differences.
The only difference I noticed before dominic is that yahoo eliminated double listings of URLs and -ex is doing just that now.
results of yahoo only were always shown as separate on top.
but if they hand edit the search for god there are bound to be more examples like that.
definitively not hand edited
